Monday RESET

Is it too late to talk about a Monday reset being that it's already the last Monday in June? Never too late I say. Google Photos sent me one of those comparison pictures, which was me in April 2016 compared to today. Glad to see there wasn't all that much difference. The picture in 2016 was from Portland when I was at the OCHIN Learning Forum. The one today was from my early morning walk as I am determined to finish with 15,000+ steps again. I don't remember when this year I  decided to reach for 15,000 but once I got there, I've been keeping it up for at least 4 months I know that. And today, not only did I get a nice start with 5500 steps even before breakfast, but I got some nice re-setting meditation in too. I focused on what I wanted to accomplish this week. For work, I simply want to create massive value, and this week I'm supposed to take over the EHR team. So I want to start making that transition a seamless one. Other than that, I wanted to be more intentional with transitioning other stuff too. As in my activities outside of work so I can be (a) positioned to help more people and not in the way I'm working now (b) financially independent. I affirmed to myself that I DO want to be a stay-at-home-dad and build other activities working from home. And I don't want to have to work for someone else.  I also reminded myself that I will need to work and clear on some perceptions I have of people in general. As in my lack of patience with them sometimes and my high expectations of the way they SHOULD behave.  I call it grumpy-old-man-itis. That I must overcome to be sure.  Anyway I felt like I accomplished a lot even before breakfast. And then I needed to take a shower in the worst way. All this summer heat has me smelling like sweat. And not taking a shower all weekend made it worse. I can't get away with THAT as much as I did in the winter and spring. It did feel refreshing to clean myself up to be sure. And then it was on to the Business Continuity Meeting, it was on to Covid Vaccination reporting. Ho-hum stuff for a Monday. I did feel like doing something different for lunch and so I walked to Marie Callenders and got me a french dip sandwich and onion rings. Mmmm. Look at the pic of me I posted. Yes I enjoyed it immensely. And then I followed up lunch with a very motivating video from Tony Robbins being interviewed by Lewis Howes. Everytime I hear Tony Robbins speak, I still get motivated and I get reminded of who I am. Especially when he talked about being a parent because he apparently is a new dad again. Parents start off pretty much unconditionally loving their kids as babies. Why don't we have unconditional love all the time? Tony had a good answer. Love is putting somebody else ahead of yourself. It starts with appreciating people because you feel their essence. Gee. What an ANSWER to my focus on impatience with people isn't it? Ahhhh....

By the time I went to pick up Johnnie it was well past 5:30 PM. Almost 6 PM even. I'm sure even Lisa with her penchant for making plans should remember the Johnnie hand-off routine tonight. It turned out mommy and son were in the back porch eating pizza. I'm thinking Johnnie had a really REALLY late lunch. And that is perfectly ok. It was then that Lisa told me she had gotten into a car accident last night. Apparently she was stopped at a light and she got rear-ended. Sounds like the freak accident that wiped out both of our cars the first month we moved into the Maplewood house and Sylvia was over. Someone plowed into our cars simply parked on the street. Fortunately, Johnnie was unharmed and showed no effects whatsoever. That would be a testament to kids being in a car seat I suppose. I am a firm believer that things like car accidents are drawn by some negative energy we get consumed by. The one with both or our cars? That would be because of all the negative energy emanating from Lisa and the tension with Sylvia's visit. The last accident I had in the Prius? I still remember we had had a big fight prior to me leaving the house. Is it a wonder something negative happened? Especially events where we did not get hurt really but somehow caused a tremendous amount of inconvenience? Whatever she was dealing with yesterday, I'm sure it had something to do with family issues. It always does with Lisa. At least she's ok it seemed like. I helped her with her trash cans and then Johnnie, myself, and the dog were off. A quick stop at El Pollo Loco for dinner and we're back in middle of the week mode. Johnnie wasted no time with Wild Kratts videos and his artwork. I just wanted to chill tonight but I had a lot of extraneous energy I needed to process. Still, in terms of resetting for a Monday, it was pretty much mission accomplished. We'll see how the rest of the week goes.